Why is your faith right?

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As many of you know, im currently in the middle of celebrating world youth day here in Sydney, and its been so beautiful. It has reconfirmed why im a faithful Catholic. The Holy Spirit is most definately in town and miracles are happening all over the place. For example, the weather has been pretty bad for the last 2 months, constant rain, cold etc (not that im complaining, we need the rain badly), but since the pilgrims have arrived, the weather has been perfect, not cold, sun shining so brightly etc, and this weather is going until, you guessed it, the last day of wyd, then on monday, its back to the rain. Everything has fallen into place and its just so wonderful. I myself have been feeling rather euphoric and cant get enough of the celebrations.
So now the question, ive witness so many miracles to confirm the Catholicism is right for me, what has happened for you to confirm that your faith is right for you? I have spoken to people of other faiths and they have also had ‘signs’ that their faith is right as well, so why do you think people see these signs in other faiths if yours is so right? Im not starting a debate, but would be interested in knowing what you think and what lead you to the right path.
God bless
 
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I have spoken to people of other faiths and they have also had ‘signs’ that their faith is right as well, so why do you think people see these signs in other faiths if yours is so right?
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I think (Exodus 7:10-13) gives us a great example of fake signs versus the true ones:

“So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake. Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.”

That’s why we prohibit the Bible in Saudi Arabia (the source of Islam), because simply the Bible will swallow up Quran, and Islam will be demolished if that’s happens, read this incident by our fellow swariffin.
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Please chk out my video on Youtube.com. Type in Romgtr and look for the video on “How to find the true religion.” That should explain why you are in the right faith. God bless!
 
Right? An odd choice of words, does that mean right for me? True?

I believe in my faith because all my life experiences and observations support it, and because since I began to practice it, my life has been transformed…in a good way.

I don’t think of it as being “right” as much as being real.
 
Maybe the word right doesn’t convey the full reality of the matter. The faith is about the truth and that truth is a person, Jesus the Christ. If our faith is true then it must be true for all persons at all time. (Jeus always begin his teachings with the words “Amen, amen…,” which means “Truely, truely…”

The word true incorporates, right and real into it. Everything that is true must be both right and real. Does this statement make any sense, “Eveything that is true is not always right and not always real”? If it is not always right then how can it be true? If it is not always real then, likewise, how can it be true?

God bless!
 
The ultimate truth is that there is no Ultimate Truth.

Do you not see the contradiction in this statement? If there is no ultimate truth then how can you say that “the ultimate truth is that there is no Ultimate Truth.”?

My family is half buddhist so I know and have studied the system.

Buddhism maybe fine and dandy for self help. But you can get the same thing from Tony Robbins. His system really works too.

However, the main objective of Buddhism is to become enlighten and escape suffering through the elimination of desires. Desires in itself is not a bad thing. I desire to eat, drink, etc. These are all good things. So therefore to eliminate these things is not good (unless you do it as a sacrifice, however Buddhist are not doing this as a sacrifice but as an escape from pain and suffering). Catholicism is the only one that answers the problem of human suffering correctly. It embraces pain and suffering and uses it to a good end.

In addition, Buddhism is a atheistic philosophy. They do not believe or care about a creator God or a higher being. Therefore every Buddhist person is an end to himself.

Every false religious system is based on self love. Whereas Catholicism is based on the love of others. “God so love the world that He sent His only son…”
 
dolphinlove said:
Hi,
As many of you know, im currently in the middle of celebrating world youth day here in Sydney, and its been so beautiful. It has reconfirmed why im a faithful Catholic. The Holy Spirit is most definately in town and miracles are happening all over the place. For example, the weather has been pretty bad for the last 2 months, constant rain, cold etc (not that im complaining, we need the rain badly), but since the pilgrims have arrived, the weather has been perfect, not cold, sun shining so brightly etc, and this weather is going until, you guessed it, the last day of wyd, then on monday, its back to the rain. Everything has fallen into place and its just so wonderful. I myself have been feeling rather euphoric and cant get enough of the celebrations.
So now the question, ive witness so many miracles to confirm the Catholicism is right for me, what has happened for you to confirm that your faith is right for you? I have spoken to people of other faiths and they have also had ‘signs’ that their faith is right as well, so why do you think people see these signs in other faiths if yours is so right? Im not starting a debate, but would be interested in knowing what you think and what lead you to the right path.
God bless
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I was estranged from everyone who ever met anything to me. Too angry for anyone to want to be around. My thinking was muddled due to Lunesta every night to sleep, 1500 mg of Tylenol to start the day, and Vicodin in the middle usually. I was also 75 pounds heavier than now; I’m tall but not THAT tall. I thought Christians were the most naive people on the planet; although my Aunt, a Christian Scientist, was the only person I kept in much contact with. Debt mainly from blowing my pretty good pay check at strip clubs and on-line porn. I did some other things too…first time I have thought about that in years…a mess.
And then I got saved. Praise be to God. None of those things occur; although I do take a Tylenol every now and then! So the right path…sure.
 
Romgtr said:
The ultimate truth is that there is no Ultimate Truth.

Do you not see the contradiction in this statement? If there is no ultimate truth then how can you say that “the ultimate truth is that there is no Ultimate Truth.”?
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I am well aware that my sig is paradoxical. The original source is Mark Siderits, “Thinking on Empty: Madhyamika Anti-Realism and Canons of Rationality” in S Biderman and B.A. Schaufstein, eds, Rationality In Question (1989). Dordrecht: Brill.

I have not read Siderits but saw the quote in a piece on Nagarjuna. The “Madhyamika” in Siderits’ title refers to the religious and philosophical school that Nagarjuna founded. I have seen the same quote again in other places in reference to the Madhyamika and Nagarjuna - it seems quite popular. The quote is intentionally paradoxical; paradox is necessary to remind us that words are insufficient when trying to describe the fundamental nature of reality.

For a philosophical discussion of Nagarjuna and reality see the web article Nagarjuna and the Limits of Thought. The Siderits quote is at the end of section four of the article:

There is, then, no escape. Nagarjuna’s view is contradictory. The contradiction is, clearly a paradox of expressibility. Nagarjuna succeeds in saying the unsayable, just as much as the Wittgenstein of the Tractatus. We can think (and characterize) reality only subject to language, which is conventional, so the ontology of that reality is all conventional. It follows that the conventional objects of reality do not ultimately (non-conventionally) exist. It also follows that nothing we say of them is ultimately true. That is, all things are empty of ultimate existence; and this is their ultimate nature, and is an ultimate truth about them. They hence cannot be thought to have that nature; nor can we say that they do. But we have just done so. As Mark Siderits (1989) has put it, “the ultimate truth is that there is no ultimate truth.”
However, the main objective of Buddhism is to become enlighten and escape suffering through the elimination of desires. Desires in itself is not a bad thing. I desire to eat, drink, etc. These are all good things.
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Gluttony and drunkenness are not good things, so the desire to eat and drink are not always good. Buddhism is indeed aimed at the elimination of suffering; as I said, it succeeds in its aim. I still have a long way to travel on the path, but I have made enough progress to get results.
In addition, Buddhism is a atheistic philosophy.
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Buddhism has many gods, it is just that they are not seen as being of any great importance. They are more like angels in Christianity. Not so much atheistic as indifferent to gods.
They do not believe or care about a creator God or a higher being.
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According to the Brahmajala sutta, the being who thinks of Himself as the creator is mistaken. There are many “higher beings” such as the Bodhisattvas. The difference being that all of us have it within us to become a Bodhisattva ourselves.
Therefore every Buddhist person is an end to himself.
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Who else can attain nirvana for me? Only I can attain nirvana for myself - no one else can do it for me.
Every false religious system is based on self love.
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“Love others as you love yourself.” - Bhadramayakaravyakarana sutra 91.

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cheddarsox said:
Right? An odd choice of words, does that mean right for me? True?

I believe in my faith because all my life experiences and observations support it, and because since I began to practice it, my life has been transformed…in a good way.

I don’t think of it as being “right” as much as being real.
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Excellent post! 👍
 
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